Events

A casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...

The Humble Poets’ Open Mic will be at The Stacks Coffeehouse on the last Sunday of each month, 4:00-6:00pm. The featured reader for May is Frederick Livingston. We are encouraging poets and storytellers to come share their works, and musical accompaniments are welcome as well. The address is 1831 N. Killingsworth , ...

Paul Suter’s roots are in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned an MA in English at UC Berkeley, 1970, and completed a Fellowship preparing community college English instructors at the University of Nebraska, 1971. He taught composition, American literature and environmental literature at Chemeketa CC. Today he copy-ed , ...

Emeritus Professor of Music Aaron Beck will present a lecture/performance of his recent research on medieval storytelling followed by his melodrama called SMEOP, a collection of his poetry with original music by Jude Abare ’24 and his amazing jazz trio. The event will begin with an exploration of the so-called 1/2 stor , ...

The Con Grazia Wind Quintet of the Oregon Chamber Players are excited to announce their collaboration with poet Emmett Wheatfall! He will read his own selected works – some WITH our music that will include Haydn, Joplin, Gershwin, and Ellington! Mr. Wheatfall’s poems will include “Peruvian”,  , ...

Come and browse books published by these talented poets whose work has been published in the Oregon Poetry Calendar: Amelia Diaz Ettinger, Geraldine Foote, Trina Gaynon, David A. Goodrum, Melanie Green, Donna Henderson, Judith Montgomery, Francis Opila, Paulann Petersen, Carlos Reyes, and Emmett Wheatfall.  Some books , ...

Tiffany Mills and the NYC-based Tiffany Mills Company has created over 20 works performed with a “fearless sense of freedom and exhilaration” (Washington Post). Mills’ process of creation is collaborative, ensemble-based, and multidisciplinary. She collaborates to blur lines between mediums and to discover layered meth , ...

A casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...

Tiffany Mills and the NYC-based Tiffany Mills Company has created over 20 works performed with a “fearless sense of freedom and exhilaration” (Washington Post). Mills’ process of creation is collaborative, ensemble-based, and multidisciplinary. She collaborates to blur lines between mediums and to discover layered meth , ...

An active poetry workshop entitled Petrichor’s Child: Within and the Written will be held monthly on the second Monday of every month, beginning Monday February 10th at 6.30 at Portland Arts Collective, in downtown Portland at 122 NW Couch Street. There are resources guiding our practice and a unique visual monta , ...

You are cordially invited to attend a Book Launch and Signing at The Public Will Building in Portland, 7-8:30 pm. In Contradictions from an Uncertain Silence, Wheatfall takes poetic inspiration from The Darkened Temple by Mari L’Esperance. “To enter the story feels like drowning and drowning is the only way to get ther , ...

Jasper Beck grew up in rural Oregon, graduating with honors from Western Oregon University with a degree in English. He received the 2023 Peter Sears Prize for Poetry, and won the 2024 NFSPS College Undergraduate Poetry Competition. He is the assistant editor for the online literary magazine Traverse. The Salem Poetry , ...

A casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...

The Oregon Poetry Association in partnership with The Arts Center of Corvallis is celebrating national poetry month with a special poetry night on Thursday, April 17th, 2025, 5:30- 7:30p, featuring these MFA poets from Oregon State University: Elyssa Cook, Anmol Priya Desai, Cheyenne Hollowell, Monique Lanier, Sam Olso , ...

Triggerfish Critical Review is an online literary arts and poetry journal established in 2009. We publish biannually (January/July), and feature one artist whose work appears on every page. Our poetry comes from practitioners around the world, and we encourage contributors to read and write peer reviews accompanying th , ...

Juan Cervantes Morales, born in Oaxaca, Mexico, is the author of two poetry books: Voices of Freedom and Endless Word. He has been a member of the Silverton Poetry Association (2010-2018) and co-founder of Spiral Publishing. It is at this time a special guest as a reader and exponent of topics on poetry for students at , ...

A casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...

Poetry open mic reading series, with a focus on remembering the poets who inspired and influenced us, both personally and historically. , ...

This evening the work of three contemporary poets will be presented, Serhiy Zhadan, Lyuba Yakimchuk, and Ostap Slyvynsky. These were poems written in and around the warzone in Ukraine. Serhiy Zhadan was born in Starobilsk, Luhansk oblast, in 1974. He is a Ukrainian poet, fiction writer, essayist, and translator. He has , ...

Ann Reed taught IB English Literature, Theory of Knowledge and Theater Arts for various IB colleges overseas. Now an independent teacher/learner, she offers the Bio-Poetic Organic Unity Study of Literature in support of the Deep Ecology Movement for global and local academic students. Awarded a doctorate in Theater Art , ...